We all know about the famous Marvel Method that led to the artists co-plotting/writing their books by default, right? But, even knowing this we don't know if we read what Jack Kirby was 'writing'.
Mike Gartland wrote a very interesting 4-part series for the Jack Kirby Collector, starting in #21, entitled A Failure To Communicate. In these articles Gartland covered some of the differences between Jack's margin notes explaining the story and the final story as printed. It's a nice series that covers some potential reasons leading to The King's exit from Marvel to DC and worth reading.
The example strip he used in the first part was the Origin Of The Inhumans back-up feature from The Mighty Thor #147. To allow you to more easily track the differences, i've eliminated the text from the lettered pencils and cleaned up Kirby's notes for easy reading. (Don't try to correlate descriptions to word balloons - it won't work) Read through this 5 page story with Kirby's notes to follow the story.
The published version appears below so you can compare, contrast, and critique at your leisure.
There you have Kirby's tale of failure of expectations and predictions for a dark future for the Inhumans.
Pretty much the exact opposite slant of what Jack had intended. One can only guess how annoying that might have been for him.
art from The Mighty Thor #147 by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Sinnott (1967)
